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Bitbucket from Australian-headquartered Atlassian offers source code management and version control.
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The most common users of Bitbucket are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Bitbucket is widely used as the primary version control tool for managing source code across various organizations and departments. Developers rely on Bitbucket to check in their branches, create pull requests, and merge approved branches into the main branch. It integrates seamlessly with other tools from the Atlassian Jira suite, such as Jira, Bamboo, and Confluence, providing a reliable and easy-to-integrate source control solution. Users appreciate Bitbucket for its ability to store and track code for personal projects, as well as share them with friends and colleagues. It serves as a valuable version control system in web development departments, where each developer has their own account and is assigned to appropriate groups. Bitbucket also meets the needs of hosting Git repositories, offering stability and flexibility for different teams. Its responsive support, free private repositories, easy integration with CI tools, and smooth user interface are highly valued by users. Some users have experienced issues with the Windows client and found the website navigation unintuitive. However, overall, Bitbucket proves to be an indispensable tool for synchronizing work between developers and different teams, including external collaborators or organizations working on private projects. Additionally, small companies benefit from Bitbucket's offer of unlimited private repositories at no cost.
Stability: Users have found Bitbucket to be stable, with minimal unscheduled outages experienced over extended periods of usage. Several reviewers have mentioned that they have not encountered any major issues or disruptions while using the platform.
Code review feature: The code review feature of Bitbucket is considered good by many users. They appreciate the ability to comment on modified code and engage in discussions until a consensus is reached. This functionality has been praised for facilitating effective collaboration and ensuring high-quality code.
Integration with JIRA: Many users value Bitbucket's integration with JIRA, as it allows them to create a new branch directly from a JIRA issue. This feature helps keep code organized and easily accessible. Several reviewers have highlighted how this seamless workflow management enhances collaboration within teams.
Confusing and outdated user interface: Many users have expressed frustration with the confusing and outdated user interface of Bitbucket. They find it difficult to navigate, locate desired settings or features, and describe it as not intuitive or in need of updating.
Limited search engine functionality: The search engine in Bitbucket has been criticized for its limitations. Users have mentioned that it does not search within source code, requiring them to set up a third-party search engine. This lack of comprehensive searching capability hinders their ability to efficiently find specific code snippets or files.
Lack of integration options for third-party apps: Some users have expressed frustration with the limited integration options available for third-party apps in Bitbucket. They mention that this lack of flexibility makes it less convenient to use the tool alongside other tools they rely on for their development workflow.
Users commonly recommend Bitbucket for its strong version control capabilities and integrations with project management tools. They suggest considering Bitbucket, especially if you are already using other Atlassian products. Users also advise giving it a trial period of one month to determine if it meets your needs. Moreover, they mention that Bitbucket is straightforward to manage for basic code. However, some users caution that it may not be the optimal choice for handling multiple branches.
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June 17, 2019
Bitbucket - Simple version control management system
Score 8 out of 10
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Bitbucket is a git repository management solution designed for professional teams. It gives us a central place to manage git repositories, collaborate on our source code and guide us through the development flow. It facilitate us to work with sourcetree git client applications which provide a graphical user interface to interact with our git repositories. It helps us collaborate better on code and integrates well with other Atlassian tools like Jira and Bamboo, which makes it easier to implement DevOps processes and keep track of the development workflow. Therefore working with Bitbucket is so easy. Beginners can start working on Bitbucket without knowing git commands. And also it provides strong access control. We can ensure the safety of our project in Bitbucket. I am using Bitbucket for managing my own projects. Before that I tried several version control systems to do that but only Bitbucket provides me with a flexible way to manage my projects. Also we have no need to worry about the commands which are being used in git. By using the sourcetree git client we can do all the version controlling task very easily. I recommend that all of you use Bitbucket for doing your version control tasks.
- Easy to track who has been making changes to the repository.
- Each developer can have his/her local repository and keep changes in sync with the server.
- Excellent auditing tools
- Simple interface and file management through built-in SourceTree integration.
- It provides limited space for community edition.
- No ability to nest repositories.
- Server version does not allow a README to be generated automatically when a repository is created (only available in the Cloud version).
- No ability to archive a repository (and moving to a different project changes the hyperlink path).
May 10, 2019
Basic Bitbucket is Decent
We have a dedicated team that is using Bitbucket in the organization today. They were part of a prior acquisition that was setup on the Atlassian tool set. It's used in conjunction with other Atlassian tools including JIRA, and Bamboo to facilitate development processes and source code management. It's worth noting that Dynacare is using both Bitbucket and VSTS for our source code management.
- Bitbucket is very simple as a code repository goes. You can't really go wrong if you choose to keep private repositories here.
- If you're ok with the basics, the pricing point is competitive compared to alternatives like VSTS which can cost more.
- Integration to other Atlassian tools is well done. JIRA integration, for instance, enables branching and code reviews right from the JIRA tickets, which can improve work efficiency. If you choose to also purchase Bamboo, automated builds and deployments hook into the repositories and provide icons to determine if the build is working or broken.
- Management of the repositories and projects is simple and easy to use.
- Getting support for an issue is relatively speedy and the staff are usually able to help you resolve issues quickly.
- The UI needs a refresh because it feels so dated and clunky.
- CI is not available in the free tier. Costs of Bamboo to get CI builds can be expensive.
March 27, 2019
A much simpler way to manage the source codes.
This great software called Bitbucket is being used in the software development deparment since it is very useful. It provides the optimal tools to carry out the development of large business projects making communication, writing code, testing and implementation much simpler because we can access all of this in one place. It also allows us to access our private repositories in a much more secure way because we are the ones who give permission to access them. The implementation of this software has facilitated the administration of codes as well as the management of projects.
- Intuitive and interactive interface.
- Provides security to all our codes.
- It offers unlimited private repositories.
- Its integration with other tools makes its operation much more powerful.
- Provides the most optimal tools to carry out the development of projects in a safe and simple way.
- Its integrations are very limited since it is only integrated with tools from the same company.
- When you want to create very large projects, your platform tends to slow down so when you want to test the codes and implement them, it is difficult to proceed.
- Your only way to get all the tools or features of your platform is through premium users.
- Collaborative work, although it is a great advantage, can also imply more expenses, especially if it is executed through its integration with other tools.
Across our whole organization, we are using the Bitbucket platform. We are using Bitbucket for code versioning and managing our source codes. Our development teams collaborate and manage the source codes within the platform. We can set access permissions for repositories, and also the user interfaces are very easy to use. It is the ideal way to manage and store our source codes.
- Easy to version our source codes.
- We can ensure maximum protection for our valuable source codes.
- Can set access permissions for repositories.
- We can easily review source codes.
- When the service is down, it will remain down for more than 1 or 2 hours.
- Unable to archive repositories.
- It would be great if we could have some improvements to the user interfaces and user experiences.
March 13, 2019
Still evaluating, but promising so far
Bitbucket Server is being rolled out to select development departments in our organization. At this time, our department is still evaluating the solution. We are not sure if we will transition to using it as our production code repository.
- Ability to manage file versioning. Each developer can have his/her local repository and keep changes in sync with the server.
- Simple interface and file management through built-in SourceTree integration.
- Excellent auditing tools. Easy to track who has been making changes to the repository.
- No ability to nest repositories.
- Server version does not allow a README to be generated automatically when a repository is created (only available in the Cloud version).
- No ability to archive a repository (and moving to a different project changes the hyperlink path).
We use Bitbucket as the source control repository for over twenty repositories. It is primarily used by the Development team, but operations and quality assurance teams use it to a limited extent as well.
- Bitbucket provides a cloud-based Git solution for our source control repositories, which makes it ideal for both on-site and remote working environments.
- Bitbucket provides very tight integration with Jira, another Atlassian product that we use for product and task management.
- Bitbucket makes it easy to view changes to files over time, empowering research on what went wrong, when, and by whom.
- Bitbucket allows private repositories in their free version - a major advantage over GitHub.
- The Bitbucket labs view of file history (beta of upcoming changes) is a big step in the wrong direction. While it makes some navigation easier, it completely removes the most used function of file history - the ability to view all the commits against a file, and quickly get to the exact changes each of those commits had on the file you are researching. Hopefully, they will listen to feedback and implement the UX improvements while not losing the most important function of the page.
- I'd like for a more streamlined UX viewing all the specific changes to a file over time and the commits they belong to.
- Bitbucket could also benefit from a good graphical view of branches like GitKraken has.
January 06, 2019
Smooth git repository
We mainly use Bitbucket across all our department to easily manage our in-development projects. We find it really easy to use, and it saves us a lot of time and effort to manage our projects. With this nice tool, we can easily manage, review and monitor our code, plus it gives an amazing integration with JIRA.
- Very simple usage
- JIRA Integration
- Can be run on your own servers
- Issue tracker
- Low cost
- Sometimes slow
- Privileged access
November 18, 2018
Outstanding codebase manager, specially if the team also uses JIRA
It's being used by several departments within the company and clients of the company.
It addresses hosting the codebase using the Git platform, where the developers can share and collaborate when developing the functionalities of their projects, and also allows developers to perform code reviews and provide visibility of their work with the JIRA board because of the Bitbucket-JIRA integration.
It addresses hosting the codebase using the Git platform, where the developers can share and collaborate when developing the functionalities of their projects, and also allows developers to perform code reviews and provide visibility of their work with the JIRA board because of the Bitbucket-JIRA integration.
- Intuitive
- Reliable
- Good integrations
- Very useful diffing tools
- Hard to track stale branches, which end up increasing the size of the repo
- Could use better labeling options for filtering and searching of PRs
- Could have an integrated wiki like GitHub
November 12, 2018
A complex but powerful piece of the puzzle
We're using Bitbucket (formerly Stash) across most of the engineering organizations. It helps us collaborate better on code and integrates well with other Atlassian tools like Jira and Bamboo, which makes it easier to implement DevOps processes and keep track of the development workflow.
- Integration with other Atlassian products is great. Of course, this is probably the main reason people go with any of the Atlassian products, that they integrate with each other so seamlessly
- It has a lot of automatic features relating to Jira and Bamboo, like exposing Bamboo job runs. This allows you to make better decisions about whether or not to merge a pull request, for example.
- The new UI is based off Atlassian's new aesthetic, which makes the tool a pleasure to use. While not a "hard" feature, developer happiness is an important benefit
- Using Jira for issues gives a lot of power, but it's also a lot of overhead and complexity that may or may not be necessary for your organization. It also puts issues in another tool, adding a little friction when it comes to addressing issues in your code
- Searching for and discovering other projects and GitHub isn't quite as intuitive or easy to use as competitors
September 27, 2018
Bitbucket - Great Git Version Control tool for Developers
The software engineering [department] uses BitBucket as its choice of version control for all repositories (over 30). It allows us to manage our advanced development and deployment workflows and integrates well with JIRA and Confluence.
- Very intuitive and user-friendly user interface.
- Lot of options for integrations, such as with JIRA, and with Slack.
- Very reliable. Never an issue with being buggy or not working.
- It would be cool to have better options to search for individual User contributions.
- You can set up a list of users who are required to approve certain pull requests (which is VERY useful). It would be nice to set up a group of users, then assign a group as being required for approval, so that if that group changes, you can update it in one place and not across every code repository.
- There are storage limits to how much you can store, and anything above it costs money. This generally isn't an issue, but can be in certain scenarios.
August 30, 2018
One of the best in this category
We are using Bitbucket to manage all our ongoing projects and future projects. It is easy to integrate with any IDE and we are currently using PHP Storm. Because of the Bitbucket, multiple users can work at the same time. After all it is easy to sync all the work done by the team.
- User Permission Handling
- Team Management
- Unlimited repositories.
- First 5 users are free
- Only five users for free plan
- 1GB storage for free plan
- Only 50 build minutes avaiable for free users
August 29, 2018
Bitbucket for your development needs
Most of the departments at eSilicon use Bitbucket for
- Source code versioning
- Code review
- Pull requests and approvals
- Public and private repositories
- File versioning - as simple as that
- Code review and approval of the pull requests: very handy when some team members are juniors or new to the project and the project lead or the senior developer(or both) has to be watchful on the commits.
- Permissions management - as a Bitbucket users and projects manager, I have to be careful who has access to the code and especially the code of other projects. In Bitbucket the permissions are simple and fit to this purpose.
- Price tag - as my number of users increased from 10 to 25, then 50 and now 100+, I find it harder and harder to get the budget for licenses upgrade. They have trial licenses that you can use temporary to address your urgent need, but still need to upgrade eventually.
- Built-in Confluence integration - I have a requirement to integrate Bitbucket with Confluence so that users can add code snippets in the documentation easily. I was expecting to have this built-in, however there are 3rd party paid plugins to buy which is not an option for me
- Integration with the big cloud providers, like GitHub has.
May 09, 2018
The best code repository manager
It is an excellent code manager based on Git. Bitbucket has become my favorite when creating new repositories of code.
- Pretty good code security options. The security settings for the permissions to write in the repositories is very, very good.
- It's the best way to resolve merge conflicts in the code. Graphically it is very easy to solve these problems in our code.
- The way to perform the pull request is very simple for your development coordinator to review and approve your code.
- You can have your control of code versions very elegantly, with a fairly comfortable interface to work.
- You can only have two repositories for free, to get more you must have a payment account.
- Is a bit heavy when loading the page to be able to review the repositories.
- It does not have an intuitive interface for the user and it costs a bit to adapt to its interface.
Score 6 out of 10
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Verified User
During my career as a programmer, I have seen the need to find software to manage my projects in the cloud, that is, where I found Bitbucket and since then I did not stop using it.
Not only does it have a pretty clean and clear interface, but it's also easy to use. It only took me about 15 minutes to see how it worked.
Now I have all my projects accessible in the cloud thanks to this online platform.
I love it. I simply recommend it to the whole community of programmers.
- When cloning projects, it is quite easy thanks to the button that allows you to quickly open the git client.
- I currently have several projects in my Bitbucket account stored. When I need a similar algorithm, I just log in to my account and download the project I need.
- On one occasion, I used the online interface to join several commits from different programmers without using the command line.
- It has little documentation for the Hispanic community.
- They can improve cloud storage costs for independent programmers.
- I would like you to have a tutorial for basic users in multiple languages.
April 23, 2018
Bitbucket is a great and reliable versioning tool, especially if you're looking for free git repos hosting
I've used Bitbucket both as a Freelancer and as a Software Engineer at the company I used to work at. We used Git at that company and Bitbucket allows for unlimited number private repositories for a smaller fee than GitHub. Bitbucket was mainly used by the engineering team although it has plenty of integrations that allow for Product owners and managers keep track of what the team was doing.
- When it comes to private repos, it is a lot cheaper than GitHub since it allows for an unlimited number.
- It supports code review, pull requests, branch comparison and commit history.
- It has a companion app called Sourcetree that is very easy to use if you're a CLI buff.
- It integrates with tools like JIRA, which help in project management.
- Apparently not so stable as GitHub, but that is rarely a problem.
- The only way to search is to launch repository and find it locally or use external apps.
April 11, 2018
Super affordable for smaller teams!
Bitbucket is used company-wide in all of our Engineering departments for a variety of products. We organized a large number of repositories in one organization and have each of the repository's permissions set to allow writing/reading for only a specific sub-group of our entire company. When creating a new repository, we typically clone a default repository, which additionally clones all of our personalized settings for the repo, such as webhooks, permissions, descriptions, etc...
- Affordable for larger teams that require many reports split up separately into sub-groups.
- Easy to customize all repo permissions and settings.
- Awesome in-browser code viewer, that was just released!
- Extremely intuitive and well-done UI, allowing viewing of many reports and handling code and files extremely simple/quick.
- Private repositories are only free for up to 5 team members.
- Many of the features of Bitbucket are clearly still a work-in-progress. You can see that some of the features aren't stable, and there are still some bugs in the releases that they make.
- Searching repositories are not possible in the browser, unlike GitHub. You must download the entire repository or branch first, and then perform the search locally.
April 03, 2018
Great productivity tool for teams
Score 9 out of 10
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It is actually the tool used to share our apps code by the whole organization. It works perfectly as needed. There have been very few times when the service was unavailable so I would say it is pretty reliable, which is very important for this kind of product.
Lately they have updated the user interface and I find it much better than before. As I'm not usually writing code I do use the web interface to look things up when needed.
Lately they have updated the user interface and I find it much better than before. As I'm not usually writing code I do use the web interface to look things up when needed.
- Works seamlessly with our build tool (Drone CI)
- Easy and clean UI for exploring the repo
- Reliable service
- Improve the file diff tool
- Have an official mobile app, mainly to be able to look at updates, PR, commits, etc.
February 01, 2018
A fantastic source code management tool
We use Bitbucket in all our offices worldwide to manage our source code migrated to Git - that is, almost all our code base, as we get rid of older versioning systems like CVS, SVN, Mercurial and Platinum. Bitbucket gives a front-end that helps a lot the collaboration between developers on a common code base: helping see the code in central repositories, visualize the branching network, manage pull requests, perform the associated code reviews, and plug external tools (like Jenkins) thanks to its system of hooks.
- In my experience, Bitbucket has shown as very stable. In more than 2 years of regular usage, with more than 5,000 people contributing on an immense code base, I have only experienced one unscheduled outage as a user, lasting less than 1 hour.
- Bitbucket proposes a handy visualization tool to help see branches, merges of the various contributions.
- The code review feature of Bitbucket is fairly good, allowing to comment modified code, reply to comments. This helps developers discuss on changes until they reach a consensus.
- Bitbucket also integrates with HipChat. Pull requests can trigger notifications in HipChat rooms.
- It is possible to add hooks, and integrate specific actions through various plugins. A Jenkins plugin allows to set up a continuous integration system, and contribute in a Devops initiative.
- Bitbucket does not highlight well lines of code for which only the indent change. This makes it painful to review some pull requests, as large blocks of code can be highlighted as changed.
- When accessing a project or repository for which you don't have access, Bitbucket just gives you an error, but gives no way of notifying the project/repository owner that you would like to get access, or getting the name(s) of the project/repository owner(s).
- The search engine is quite limited. It seems it searches in the repository names and descriptions, but does not search in the source code. We have to setup a third-party search engine.
January 19, 2018
Bitbucket bits of information
We use Bitbucket across our whole organization. It helps us keep track of all of our GIT repositories and allows us to review code in a timely and organized way. It allows the organization to keep repositories isolated to certain people and allows for sharing of other repositories with everyone in the company if there is the need for company wide tools.
- I really like the way pull requests are viewable in one location and are easy to find
- I like not having to pull down whole repositories just to view a simple line of code if needed
- Setting up ssh keys and integrations worked very well
- Integrations with our teamcity servers has been very smooth
- This is partly due to organization of our teams, but at times I am added to way too many pull requests automatically.
- It would be nice to have functionality that looks for certain files changed or folders in pull requests to add reviewers.
January 17, 2018
Great Version Control System for Private Repositories
Bitbucket is used in my company to share some git repositories with third party entities. Due to some restrictions of networks and security, when a code share is needed between the company and third parties, this is the tool used to share code.
- Unlimited private repositories for free for teams up to 5 elements. Even for larger teams, the prices are affordable.
- Great integration with JIRA, allows to create branches from a JIRA issue.
- Multiple login options: Google + (preferable), but also GitHub, Facebook and Twitter
- Allow to import project from other sources: Git, Mercurial, Subversion, SourceForge and CodePlex
- Allows to create repositories in Git or Mercurial
- Excellent for academic purposes
- Doesn't have a massive community behind it like GitHub
- If you want to host BitBucket in your servers, the price will increase a lot
- Web UI could be improved, some tasks like see all branches or search on code could be a huge pain
December 13, 2017
Your go-to for free private repositories!
Previously I was using it as the main development platform for work. I found the free private repositories very valuable for an early stage start up as well as very easy to integrate with CI and other tools. They have plenty of integrations prebuilt and their support is very responsive as well. I find it a very great alternative to GitHub and GitLab (which seems to be down almost every day at least for a couple hours).
I still use it personally for my own projects that I work on with friends and have almost no issue with the basic day to day features.
I still use it personally for my own projects that I work on with friends and have almost no issue with the basic day to day features.
- Bitbucket is almost never down and you'll always be able to access your repositories.
- Easy to use integrations for CI and development tools.
- Newly rolled out features are well thought out and do not take away from the UX and core functionality.
- The settings of each repository are a little bit hard to navigate.
- The list of all projects and repositories are also hard to navigate.
- For a smaller team, keeping track of smaller projects all over the place is tedious.
November 10, 2017
A very good version control system
Bitbucket has been used extensively in the digital part of my company. We are using it for all our projects small and big and it is our official way of versioning software. It helps to keep track of every change done to the code and to have a history of them without the risk of losing data.
- Versioning code: tracking every commit with precision
- Branches management: Managing branches for a team working on the same project
- Accessibility: easy interface via web for the codebase
- Project management: Creation of projects and sub-repositories is a little bit lacklustre
- I would like an editor (maybe WYSIWYG) for readme (MD) files
- Conflict merge history to improve
November 09, 2017
Must have versioning control if you use Jira
It is used as main versioning control tool for all Our company's projects. It is used as part of Altassian Jira suite, together with Jira, Bamboo and Confluence. We use it as stash for our projects, where developers check in they branches using git commands, create pull requests and merge approved branches (pull requests) in to main branch.
- It is great to track changes done by different programmers.
- You can add comments, tasks to pull request.
- It works together with Jira, so inside your Jira tickets you see all branches and pull requests associated with the tickets. This is really useful.
- You could add some sorting and filtering options to table views.
- View changes done for particular project (inside solution) or folder.
November 03, 2017
I highly recommend Bitbucket.
Bitbucket is used by our organization to store and maintain codebases of number of completed and ongoing projects. As an IT department of the organization, we rely extensively on Bitbucket to maintain those repositories. We have number of developers who work on the same project and Bitbucket allows us to systematically collaborate and manage those projects by taking care of version control.
- It is quite straightforward and easy to create a repository, share it, clone it and start working on it right away.
- It maintains all the code changes, manages the versions and also allows to revert them back.
- It allows to creates branches that makes it easier to work on a special feature before merging it back to the master codebase.
- It has been really easy to work with it, can't complain.
September 27, 2017
Bitbucket - Great tool for agile software development
We use bitbucket as the only source control system here at Sophos. Every process starting from developing to deployment is backed by bitbucket.
- Conflict management is superior in bitbucket.
- It provides quick and easy connectors to JIRA and Jenkins.
- It is very convenient to work on multiple branches at the same time and to track the status of the branch by visual representation of the branch commits by graphs.
- Finding pull requests is a bit confusing once you have reviewed it, it loses the track from notifications. There should be a way to keep approved PRs in the notification segment.